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Traditional Cambodian musical instruments

Traditional Cambodian musical instruments are the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical musics of Cambodia. They comprise a wide range of wind, string, and percussion instruments, used by both the Khmer majority as well as the nation's ethnic minorities.

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Flutes

  • Khloy - vertical duct flute made of bamboo, hardwood, or plastic, with buzzing membrane
  • Khloy ek - smaller in size
  • Khloy thom - larger in size

    • Free-reed

  • Sheng - water buffalo or ox horn with a single free reedphoto
  • Pey pok - free-reed pipephoto
  • Ploy (also called m'baut) - mouth organ with gourd body and five to seven bamboo pipes; used by Mon-Khmer-speaking upland ethnic minorities
  • Ken/Khaen - free-reed mouth organ used in northwestern Cambodia
  • Angkuoch (also called kangkuoch) - jaw harp made of bamboo or metal

    • Kaois

  • Sralai - quadruple-reed oboe
  • Sralai toch - small quadruple-reed oboe
  • Sralai thom - large quadruple-reed oboe
  • Pey ar (also spelled beyaw, and also called bey prabauh) - oboe with cylindrical bore

    • Horns

  • Saing - conch shell horn

    • Other

  • Slek - tree leaf used as a wind instrument

    • Bowed

  • Tro - fiddle
  • Tro Khmer - three-string vertical spike fiddle with coconut shell body; used in classical music
  • Tro che - high-pitched two-string vertical fiddle, with face covered with snakeskin
  • Tro sau toch - two-string vertical fiddle with hardwood body; used in classical music
  • Tro sau thom - two-string vertical fiddle with hardwood body; used in classical music
  • Tro u (also spelled tro ou) - lower two-string vertical fiddle with a coconut shell body, with face covered with calfskin or snakeskin; used in classical musicphoto

    • Plucked

  • Chapei dong veng (ចាប៉ីដងវែង) - plucked fretted lute
  • Krapeu (also called takhe) - crocodile-shaped fretted floor zither with three strings
  • Kse diev (also spelled se diev, and also called khse muoy) - chest-resonated stick zither)photo

    • Struck

  • Khim - hammered dulcimer

    • Drums

  • Sampho - barrel drum, played with the hands
  • Skor ( (also spelled sko)
  • Skor thom - pair of large barrel drums, played with sticks
  • Thon - goblet-shaped drum, played with the handsphoto
  • Rumana - frame drum, played with the hands

    • Gong chimes

  • Kong vong toch (also called kong toch) - small gong circle
  • Kong vong thom (also called kong thom) - large gong circle

    • Keyboard

  • Roneat - trough-resonated keyboard percussion instrument; generally played with two mallets and used in Khmer classical and theater music
  • Roneat ek - smaller xylophone
  • Roneat thung - larger xylophone
  • Roneat dek - smaller metallophone
  • Roneat thong larger metallophone; no longer used

    • Gongs

  • Kong vong - single suspended gong

    • Clappers

  • Krap - pair of flat bamboo or hardwood sticks

    • Cymbals

  • Ching (ឈិង) - pair of small cymbals used to mark time
  • Chap - pair of flat cymbals

    • Woodblocks

  • Pan - woodblock
  • Nay pay - Pellow
  • Sindang - Small Size Woodblocks

    • References

    Traditional Cambodian musical instruments Wikipedia
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